PO367: Engaging School Staff as Partners in Suicide Prevention

  • PMD: 6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. evaluate an evidence-based suicide prevention program they can utilize within their own schools and districts;
  2. understand how staff professional development within the school setting can be enhanced to promote a socially and emotionally supportive school climate; and
  3. evaluate features that make a suicide prevention program positively perceived by teachers receiving the training.

Description

Explore an evidence-based suicide prevention program school staff can take part in to build the skills necessary to identify and support students at risk.

Presenter(s)

Parker A. Levins, Louisiana State University
Kelly N. Clark, PhD, Louisiana State University

Contributor(s)

Meghan Diamon

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